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While I was out traveling last week, someone remarked to me that Best Buy may be having some financial trouble, a fact they found somewhat...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

This week in our look at miscellaneous product releases and announcements, we've got news from Antec, Cooler Master, Scythe, and Thermaltake:

Type: News story Tags: Cases Power Cooling

Valentine's Day approaches. As you lavish your significant other with flowers, chocolates, and hand-written coupons for various, ahem, favors, be sure not to forget...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Power Storage Displays

Well well... look at what we have here: cheap drugs from Canada. They're free drugs, actually, sent to reviewers by AMD's GPU team up in...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

With a little help from AMD, researchers at North Carolina State University have been able to increase the performance of general-purpose GPU computing by an...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics

What do you do when publishers scoff at your ideas for a game? Turn to your fans, of course. That's just what the folks at...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

The iPad 3's release is nigh, if the latest round of reports from the rumor mill are to be believed. AllThingsD says it heard...

Type: News story Tags: Personal tech

Unless you've locked yourself into the Apple ecosystem and thrown away the key, laptop shopping can be a daunting prospect. A dizzying array of options...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing

Eight is Enough AllThingsD reports Apple to announce iPad 3 first week in March Microsoft is mishandling Windows 8 embedded release, argues...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Windows head honcho Steven Sinofsky has posted a whopper of a blog post about Windows on ARM. The 8,600-word piece starts off with a...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows Personal tech

AMD has a new management team and a new direction. They recently shared their vision for the company's future, and we were there, listening...

Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers

Ivy Bridge isn't yet out the door, but Intel is already talking about more enhancements coming in Haswell. The next-generation chip will bring a...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Consumer-grade SSDs started making the transition to 25-nm NAND early last year. We saw enterprise-oriented drives based on MLC flash make the jump, as...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Watch out, Dropbox. You're about to get some competition from Google. At least, that's what the Wall Street Journal says, quoting "people familiar with the...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Well, Rambus has wrapped up another round of litigation. This time, Nvidia has agreed to sign a patent license agreement with the patent troll technology...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Eight is Enough NC State: Engineers boost computer processor performance by over 20% Windows 8 on ARM: The desktop is still there...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Three weeks to go until you can get your hands on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. As CNet News reports, Microsoft has revealed the...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Microsoft has outlined a number of the big changes coming in Windows 8, including the addition of a touch-friendly Metro UI. Metro's big fonts...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems